Many Democrats are frustrated that Bev Perdue is not giving them any reason to vote for her rather than against McCrory. Her campaign has not had much of a focus on economic issues so far even though almost two thirds of voters in the state list it as their top concern. Those are a few of the things she'll have to get righted in the next five weeks to get the race headed back in her direction- she's done it before.

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So true. All I hear her talk about is education. Which is important of course, but I'm sure she's running the same campaign as every Democratic guv. candidate since Jim Hunt that tries to tar the republican as cutting 1 billion dollars out of education. It just ain't working this year because the economy is in the tank. She needs to come up with a strong economic message and fast. Democratic governors have been able to kind of ignore an economic message in their campaigns and only address it obliquely through education. Not gonna work this year. Get it together Bev.

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